Dieter Noeth wrote:
> DA Morgan wrote:
>
>> Some week when you've nothing else to do put together a list of every
>> "optional" feature in the standard and who doesn't have it. It is a
>> very very long list. No vendor has implemented all of the optional
>> items.
>
> Not even the mandatory features, the well-known DBMSes fully implement
> just SQL92 Entry Level. And IMHO it's almost impossible to implement all
> that optional stuff: before you implemented it there's a new version of
> SQL with new optional features...
>
> But at least all vendors move towards SQL:2003, maybe within the next
> years there will some DBMSes compliant with base SQL:2003.
>
> Dieter
I hope not. What makes the products useful is that they are different.
When every ice cream cone only comes with vanilla it will be a boring
world indeed.
--
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
www.psoug.org
Received on Sat Aug 11 2007 - 18:31:17 CDT
